Projects in Colorado that will help the black-footed ferret and people who love to fish received $4.3 million in funding Thursday from the Department of Interior.

The National Black-footed Ferret Center near Carr, which is in northern Colorado near the Wyoming border, was the awarded the bulk of the funding with $3.6 million. Those funds will go for pre-conditioning pens, facility rehabilitation and repair, and new construction.

The remaining $751,000 will go to projects at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Commerce City. The public restroom at Lake Ladora’s Fishing Access Point will be replaced, as will the Lake Mary public access floating boardwalk and fishing pier.

Thursday’s funding announcement for Colorado was part of a nationwide list of projects that received $50 million in grants.

The $50 million list of maintenance projects just scratches the surface of the $1.4 billion backlog of projects facing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has said that the Interior’s deferred maintenance backlog is one of his to priorities.

Nationally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages 566 national wildlife refuges and operates national fish hatcheries, fish technology centers and fish health centers. The agency is responsible in total for $46 billion in real estate property assets– which includes 25,000 structures as well as nearly 14,000 roads, bridges and dams.